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Speaking to media at Jantar Mantar, Karti said, "I have never met Indrani Mukherjea. I have never met Peter mukherjea". However, he said, the only time he met her was during the CBI interrogation in Byculla jail.He added, "I don't go to my farther's (P. Chidambaram's) office. Earlier he had said, "I never met anyone in FIPB (Foreign Investment Promotion Board), don't know the process of FIPB."This is a clear contradiction to what Indrani had said to the ED. In a statement recorded on February 17, 2018, Indrani had reportedly claimed that Karti had asked them (Mukherjeas) for a bribe of $1 million when they met in Delhi's Hyatt hotel. This statement now forms a part of court documents.A day after former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram was arrested and shooed away to the CBI headquarters, his son and MP Karti Chidambaram landed in Delhi to protest against his father's arrest and strategise the legal fight ahead.Before leaving for Delhi, he blamed the BJP government for his father's arrest. "The government is of the BJP. Who else (would have done that)?", said Karti while speaking to media just before leaving for Delhi.Upon landing in Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport, the MP son of P. Chidambaram once again targeted the CBI and announced his plans to protest at jantar mantar against his father's arrest."This is not merely targeting of my father but the targeting of Congress party. I will go to Jantar Mantar to protest", said Karti.Meanwhile, DMK chief MK Stalin too backed Chidambaram. His party is holding a protest today in Delhi against the abrogation of Article 370 of constitution. But now, they are also expected to protest against the arrest of the former finance minister who also hails from Tamilnadu.Stalin too called the arrest a 'political vendetta' but expressed hope that Chidambaram will face the case legally, "Chidambaram is a legal expert. He will for sure face the case legally."Meanwhile other traditional allies of the Congress have been muted in their support for Chidambaram.The former finance minister is accused of granting a FIPB clearance for foreign direct investment (FDI) to INX Media when he was the finance minister during UPA, in exchange of alleged bribes paid to his son Karti Chidambaram.( With inputs from IANS )

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Same food is available for everyone, said the Delhi High Court on Thursday while hearing the regular bail plea filed by former finance minister P. Chidambaram, who is currently in Tihar Jail in INX Media corruption case. ...

Allowing anticipatory bails to former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram, Special CBI Judge O.P. Saini said they couldn't commit the same crimes as they no more held a position in the government. ...

Days after the Finance Ministry reported contraction in the GDP growth, former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday slammed the Narendra Modi government blaming its policies for the economic slowdown in the country. ...

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's language challenge and tweeted the word "bahuvachanam", which means pluralism in Malayalam. ...

Vocal BJP MP from Delhi Meenakshi Lekhi has turned author with her first book titled 'The New Delhi Conspiracy'. ...

Scores of top court lawyers on Friday urged the Supreme Court Bar Association to pass a resolution against the High Court's refusal to urgently hear Congress leader P Chidambaram's petition in the INX Media case. ...

CBI Deputy Superintendent of Police R. Parthasarathy, who scaled the six-foot-high boundary wall of former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's residence to arrest him on Wednesday night, is the same officer who arrested his son in February 2018 from th ...

Rubbishing claims of Enforcement Directorate (ED), Karti Chidambaram, who is also an accused in INX Media case along with his father P. Chidambaram, said he never met Peter or Indrani Mukherjea. ...